CHILD'S PLAY IS OUT NOW: Kia Abdullah's sexy crime thriller is available in stores and online now: Buy it now from Amazon.

READ AN EXTRACT: Read the first two chapters of Child's Play here.

VIEW LAUNCH IMAGES: Readers had a chance to meet Kia at her official book launch. The audience of 60 listened to Kia about Child's Play and the power of literature to change lives.

"I am not backing down. I am not staging a retreat.
Let people say what they want."

When author Kia Abdullah's controversial debut hit the shelves, she responded with the insouciant words above. Now releasing ultra-sexual thriller Child's Play, Kia may need to re-employ that steely determination. You see, Child's Play isnt what you would expect from a female writer called Abdullah. Instead of a paprika-laden story about marriage and identity, she has written a novel that shatters the delicate sensibilities governing output from Asian writers.

Descibed by NY Times bestselling author Thomas Perry as "a brave a intriguing novel", Child's Play centers on Allegra Ashe, a fiery young woman recuited into a covert government unit that chases paedophiles. A tale of twisted sexuality and tortured morality, Child's Play places a microscope over the darkest recesses of the human mind and invites its readers to take a look. We watch as good and evil break through their barriers and the hunters slowly, deliciously, become the hunted.